It was about three years ago that Patrick Ekwall59, lost his wife Hannah Ekwall39, in the suites of breast cancer.
In an interview with Allas, Patrick has previously told more about the first meeting with Hannah and that she more or less struck like a bolt of lightning in his life. This after a wet night at Stureplan.
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Hannah Ekwall with Patrick Ekwall. Image source: Stella Pictures
– It was a late night, or actually it had already been morning. Maybe not quite optimal. Hannah was more into it than I was, which I am of course happy about today. But the thing was, I really wanted to be single, Ekwall added Everyone’s.
Sports Gala 2017 in Globen. Image source: Stella Pictures
The couple stayed together and would later have a daughter, Tindra, who is now 11 years old. On Instagram, Patrick has frequently updated about his and Tindra’s everyday life after Hannah’s passing and how everyday life somehow has to continue – even though it has been difficult.
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– I can sometimes feel guilty because it looks like I’m fine. But I feel pretty bad too, I promise you. I have good days and bad days. But I stand up, I have Tindra to take care of and I want us to move forward all the time. Forward, forward, forward. Hannah lived every day, she died one day. We won’t get her back unfortunately, but we still live here and we must continue to do so. The alternative is to pull down the blinds, sit down in bed and look straight into a wall. And I’m glad I didn’t, he said in an interview with The Express after he became an ambassador for the Breast Cancer Association a couple of months after Hannah passed away.
Patrick Ekwall found love again Two years later, the day came when Patrick found love again. His new love is called Camilla Cohen40, and works at a PR agency in Stockholm.
She lives on Lidingö and has two daughters who are the same age as Tindra. Patrick also has the daughter Wilma22, from a previous relationship.
At first, the profiles chose to keep the relationship a secret. But in the summer of 2023, Patrick chose in an interview with The evening paper to tell about the new love.
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– It feels wonderful and almost unreal that it has turned out as very well as it has actually turned out. Everything works surprisingly well. But as I said, it is a special situation and I am incredibly aware of it and have been very careful, not least for Tindra’s sake, Patrick Ekwall told me at the time.
Patrick Ekwall with Camilla Coene. Image source: Stella Pictures
Patrick said in the same interview that he and Camilla’s entourage had been very supportive in the announcement. But that certainly didn’t apply to everyone.
During the week, Patrick Ekwall was a guest on the podcast “Help me turn 50!” which is governed by Richard Olsson. There, Rickard quickly told the listeners that Patrick, before the podcast started recording, said that he didn’t want to talk too much about everything surrounding Hannah, out of respect for her.
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– It has become… this whole ‘it’s a shame about Patrick’ thing, you want to get away from it a bit. All interviews somehow end up in this and it… becomes like a weight that you don’t want to stand and stomp under. At the same time, you don’t want people to feel that he has moved on quickly, he says.
– But can’t we, at the age we are now, give a little more shit about what people think?, asks Rickard.
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– If I cared what everyone thought and thought about me during all the years as a sports journalist, I would have gone crazy. But in this case… it will be different. It can take quite a toll when someone writes something mean, which is typically written by women who are 45 and older, says Patrik.
– What do they write?, asks Rickard.
– That I moved on too quickly. That they certainly hadn’t moved on so quickly. But since I made money from books and lectures where I tried to help people who are going through the same thing as me. And yes, it will be harder to blow away somehow, says Patrick.
– Yes, if I had had social media when I started on the radio, my career would have ended quickly, I can tell you here and now, Rickard filled in.
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